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Gov. Perry’s water board still won’t acknowledge climate change as Texas faces dire drought in 2013
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Two top environmental officials in the state of Texas told Raw Story this week that not only is the state ill-prepared to face a summer this year even hotter than the record-breaking drought of 2011, it has largely neglected to begin planning for the unprecedented drought conditions…
Texas takes step toward secession with Rick Perry’s plan to hoard gold
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and freshman state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione have a plan to create a “Fort Knox of Texas” so that the state can start hoarding gold. Giovanni has filed a bill to establish a Texas Bullion Depository to store the $1 billion worth of gold bars that…
Rick Perry to decide on 2016 presidential run ‘sometime later in the year’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Tuesday that he would announced his decision on another presidential bid “sometime later in the year.” Regarding his run for re-election as governor, he told The Shark Tank, “check me in June.” Months after dropping out of the Republican presidential primary race last year,…
Rick Perry urges Californians to relocate to Texas
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has opened a new front in a battle-of-words between the two most-populous states in the country. In a new radio ad, the Republican governor urges California businesses to relocate to Texas to avoid high tax rates and regulations. The ad will air in Los Angeles, San…
Rick Perry: ‘Pray for help’ rather than passing gun laws
Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said Wednesday that Americans should become more devout rather than attempt to reduce gun violence through laws and regulations. After President Barack Obama announced his proposals to fight against gun violence in the United States, Perry released a statement that said none of the…
Rick Perry tells tea party: Allow more guns in schools
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that schools in his state will be safer when school districts are given the ability to allow staff to carry guns. Speaking to a cheering crowd of Northeast Tarrant County Tea Party members on Monday, the Texas governor called last week’s shootings at an…
Texas Democrat calls for Rick Perry to be drug tested
A Texas Democratic state senator has suggested that if Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) wants to follow through with his plan to drug test his state’s unemployed, then the governor himself should also be tested. According to Huffington Post, State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) said that as the…
Texas judge rules that Gov. Perry can’t yank women’s clinic funding yet
It’s a Texas state judge that’s now blocking Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) quest to get rid of Planned Parenthood. According The Austin Chronicle, Judge Amy Clark Meachem issued a temporary restraining order against a federal ruling that would let the state pull funding from women’s clinics affiliated with the Texas…
Perry ‘proudly’ refuses health care to 1.2 million low-income Texans
In a statement published Monday morning, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) “proudly” declared that he will decline to implement key tenets of the Affordable Care Act — a move that will see his state forgo an estimated $164 billion dollars in federal aid and leave over 1.2 million low-income Texans,…
Rick Perry ‘interested’ in 2016 presidential bid
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he’s already thinking about another attempt at the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. In a recent interview, Jack Fink, a reporter with the CBS affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, asked Perry if he was “interested” in another presidential bid. “Yeah, I am,” Perry replied. “I love…
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